Wish Quotes

9049 Wish quotes by 4630 unique authors

Any one who wishes to become a good writer should endeavour, before he allows himself to be tempted by the more showy qualities, to be… — Henry Watson Fowler
I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing-to be clear. I have given up all thought of… — Isaac Asimov
I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure. — George Orwell
Whatever the thing you wish to say, there is but one word to express it, but one verb to give it movement, but one adjective… — Gustave Flaubert
There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. 'Tis good to give… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We need to be much clearer about what we do and do not know so that we don't continually confuse the two. If I could… — Benjamin Bloom
I believe that decisions about the timing and manner of death belong to the individual as a human right. I believe it is wrong to… — A.C. Grayling
Now, when I came on to Washington to begin my job, I was so interested in photography at that time that I really would have… — Ben Shahn
I don't have parts of my body that I hate or would like to trade for somebody else's or wish I could surgically adjust into… — Kate Winslet
Most players ... do not like losing, and consider defeat as something shameful. This is a wrong attitude. Those who wish to perfect themselves must… — Jose Raul Capablanca
In my 20s I used to cry about why I wasn't thinner or prettier, but I want to add that I also used to cry… — Melissa McCarthy
The passion for playing chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world. It slaps the theory of natural selection in the face. It… — H.G. Wells
I sent my Christmas wishes to him, but he didn't answer. He's the world's best coach, but as a man he still has to learn… — Mario Balotelli
If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one… — Mahatma Gandhi
The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure of the atoms. But we cannot speak… — Werner Heisenberg
For every person wishing to teach there are thirty not wanting to be taught. — W. C. Sellar
True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest… — Seneca the Younger
I will be a man among men; and no longer a dreamer among shadows. Henceforth be mine a life of action and reality! I will… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The nature of Christ's salvation is woefully misrepresented by the present-day evangelist. He announces a Saviour from Hell rather than a Saviour from sin. And… — Arthur W. Pink
God forbid that all children, of whom daily so great a multitude die, would perish, but that also for these, the merciful God, who wishes… — Pope Innocent III
I'm not gay, although I wish I were, just to piss off the homophobes. — Kurt Cobain
Whenever I have a birthday, I think back over the past year, how I've spent my time, what I've accomplished, what regrets I have, how… — Richard M. Weiner
The Celts were fearless warriors because they wish to inculcate this as one of their leading tenets, that souls do not become extinct, but pass… — Julius Caesar
The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose. Foolish… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A kiss may not be the truth, but it is what we wish were true. — Steve Martin

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